Markus Stitz rides his gravel bike on the new Wild About Argyll Trail
ARGYLL and the Isles, Scotland’s Adventure Coast, provides an awe-inspiring setting for bikepacking – and it now has a new cycling trail to attract particpants. With funding from Argyll and the Isles Tourism Co-Operative, Scottish Natural Heritage and Forestry Commission Scotland, Bikepacking Scotland has added the new trail to its offer recently, and just released the new short film Wild About Argyll to showcase the route.
At 655km (407 miles) the Wild About Argyll Trail is a long-distance cycling route designed specifically with gravel bikes in mind. While Bikepacking Scotland founder and round the world cyclist Markus Stitz was initially doubtful about the attraction of gravel bikes, a great demand for such a route in a survey conducted as part of the project, with 576 responses from 26 countries, changed his mind.